Nearly everyone in California has an opinion about the homelessness crisis, but very few people have a realistic vision of what to do about it. In the Bay Area and Los Angeles, where thousands of ...

Amber Portwood has no interest in calling California home, despite her son living there; even if she did, she says she can't ...

Alarmed that city enforcement of anti-slum codes for apartments has fallen years behind schedule, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday ordered a reform of the program to get it back on track ...

The newest slumlord in Los Angeles is a pillar of German capitalism. Earlier this month, the city attorney’s office filed suit against Deutsche Bank, the world’s fourth-largest bank, for ...

Slums (our term) refer to areas of concentrated poverty where at least 40 percent of individuals live under the poverty line. In the 1990s, America's slum population decreased from 9,101,622 to ...

When residents of a slum cluster in New Delhi's Janta Camp area heard that the G20 Summit was to be held in the Indian capital, ... Then city authorities ordered them to vacate by May 31.

These compelling photos provide a peek into Birmingham's history, revealing the grim reality of life in slum dwellings. Years ago, a substantial portion of the city's inhabitants resided in slums ...

Evans Bipi, Rivers Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, has issued a seven-day notice to commence clearing Port Harcourt City of slums and illegal waste dumpsites. The ...

Nagpur: In a push towards inclusive urban development just before elections, 426 slum settlements across Nagpur were granted legal land rights under v.

A central element of the city authorities’ efforts to address the issue has been to evict people. Over the past decade, more than 50,000 people have been evicted from their homes in Lagos slums.